The world has no appetite for his big beautiful luxury goods store.
USA used to be the managers and leaders of these factories, now he wants them to be the grunt workers and for some reason people are all for it.
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Before Reaganomics and globalism the middle class was strong and built on the shoulders of blue collars, why do you think they forced globalism down our throat? So they could make stuff cheaply and could eradicate the middle class. I hate Trump and what he stands for, but globalism was something the left was fighting against back in the day because the left realized the consequences of losing manufacturing jobs in first world countries.
What made those jobs available was economic opportunity, investment, building a greater whole over time. You don’t win a game of checkers by knocking over the board or a race to the bottom to become the next third world poverty labor. You win with a focussed strategy to push one checker to the other side and “king” it.
Biden was taking the right approach with the chips act , infrastructure spending, and renewable energy investments. Maybe it wasn’t flashy or loud or immediate, but would have actually built a dominant position in new technologies, including us supply chain and lots of us jobs. The biggest flaw was we needed to stick to the plan for a decade or two, but that’s what you gotta do.
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they also saw reagan was a easy to manipulate stooge, especially after his alzheimers starting to affect him, they took even greater advantage of him.
All socialist ideologies are globalist.
"Workers of the world unite" ring any bells? "All war is class war?" Globalist rhetoric. The idea that artificial divisions like nations are weapons against the people.
You are, ironically, using the word the way Reagan and his kind used it, as an ill-defined nationalist slur to protect local profit margins.
There's a difference between fighting together against capitalism and being pro economic globalization. Economic globalization has actually hurt the workers of the world and you know full well that's what I'm talking about, you just want to argue for the sake of arguing.
https://repository.law.miami.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1082&context=umiclr
Because only white Europeans deserve to have the benefits of an industrial or post industrial economy, obviously.
Go tell a kid making Nike shoes that he's benefiting
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The way I see, ~~Trump's~~ the Trump Administration's motives are:
(1) Plunder the government of anything of value.
(2) Cause a recession so rich can buy everything up on the market.
(3) Sabotage America geopolitically on behalf of foreign adversaries, most notably Russia.
(4) Cement power in their control and go after any rivals.
Edit: For clarification, I don't think it really matters what part of this is Trump himself versus the people he surrounds himself with and permits as the executive to do what they're doing in their own personal agendas that align with one or more of these 4 points.
Nah.
These are definitely someone's motives but not Trump's.
He's old and tired and petty. All he cares about is his ego, which he supports with power, revenge, and attention.
Trump doesn't have any kind of plan other than waking up every day and stroking his ego.
Why Greenland?
It destroyed the Baltic alliances that are a PITA for Russia
Why kill academics?
Our economic dominance is a PITA for Russians
Why destroy the dollar?
Ibid
Why kill NATO?
Ibid
Seems like a lot of work for a lazy old man who’s not in fear from Russian mobsters
Exactly, it's like thinking he had a plan the whole time to bankrupt his casinos or any of his other many failed ventures. He is just bad at leadership because his narcissism constantly self-sabotages, like with his casinos he constantly made terrible and expensive changes and his ego wouldn't allow any one working for him to challenge him, so he'd blame everyone, stiff contractors, fire competent staff who could actually turn the situation around and the next thing you know the casino is failing despite it being basically a sure bet for profit in that time and place.
It's the same here, the country will collapse because he isn't just a bad leader, he is a collection of toxic qualities that almost guarantee bad organizational outcomes even given very positive starting conditions.
doesnt help that half the voting population seems to be just as narcist and ready to go down with the ship if certain groups get fucked harder
Yeah that is fair and I should've elaborated this as the Trump Administration. As in, Trump doesn't care because he both successfully ran from prison, and is now able to golf pretty much all he wants. If anything he probably resents America for refusing to vote for him in 2020. So now all the pilot fish surrounding Trump who helped get him elected for their own end are reaping their end of the bargain.
So naturally you've got the Russian assets (Gabbard, Flynn, Trump himself), the zealots like Mike Johnson and Stephen Miller, the corporate oligarchical opportunists like Musk. The power-hungry (like Trump's sons, JDV, etc.), and so on. It's a big fuck-you to America and it ultimately matters little to me whether it's Trump or the broader Republican party. As far as I'm concerned they all made this; they all enabled it. They are criminal cartel.
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Never listen to the reason they claim to be doing something, look only to what they are doing. And that, quite clearly, day after day indicates that they are doing everything they can to destroy the USA, as quickly as possible. Once one has determined what they are doing, then ask who does this benefit.
The thing is, it doesn't really benefit anyone. If you're Russia, for instance, it would be better to destroy the entire democratic world than just the United States, and Trump could have done that if he'd just moved more slowly on some of his actions (for instance, if he'd remained quiet about Canada until after our election then we'd be in a very different situation now.) Trump's just an idiot, plain and simple, and the people he surrounds himself with are either idiots themselves or too cowardly to call the idiots out on their idiocy.
It's a mistake to think that either he or his handlers have some kind of master plan and that everything Trump does is the result of expert manoeuvring that just looks like stupidity. That promotes defeatism and gets people to surrender prematurely. As long as people stand up to Trump, he will lose.
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You mean that this plan was not fully thought out and is just another reactionary policy that will do more harm than good? Shocking!
So how come the people in MANUFACTURING couldn't see his proposal in MANUFACTURING was a big crock of shit?
Because the people writing him checks aren't the people doing all the actual work.
the supply chain to produce those goods in the United States simply isn’t there
This is what everyone has been saying ad-nauseum since this whole shit show started.
BRB, setting up my backyard forge after years of not smooshing any metal. Looks like it's up to people like me to make all this complicated tool&die
But they'll be able to build big beautiful factories with huge tarriffs on all the building supplies and equipment right?